Software Engineer III, Securities Services Technology
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 19 hours ago
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- Compensation
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- City
- Hong Kong
- Country
- China
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Join an agile Securities Services team to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable backend systems for a major financial institution. You'll develop high-quality production code (Java 17+, Spring Boot), optimize performance and reliability, and contribute to system design, testing, and operational stability. The role involves cloud-native development, event-driven architectures (Kafka, EKS, distributed cache), and driving best practices including CI/CD, resiliency, security, and AI integration. You'll work with stakeholders, architects, and technical leads to deliver enterprise-grade solutions.
Location: Hong Kong
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Software Engineer within Securities Services, you will be an integral part of an agile team that enhances, builds, and delivers trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will conduct critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas, supporting the firm’s business objectives.
Job Responsibilities
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
- Develop secure, high-quality production code; review and debug code written by others.
- Optimize back-end applications for maximum speed, reliability, and scalability.
- Drive adoption of best practices in software development and AI integration, maintaining high standards of quality, security, and efficiency.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability of software applications and systems.
- Work with stakeholders to gather requirements and ensure solutions meet business needs.
- Collaborate with technical Leads and Architects for new products.
- Contribute to a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Proficient in coding in one or more object-oriented languages, including Java 17+ with Spring Boot.
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
- Experience building enterprise applications with high availability and performance using Java, Spring, Kafka, EKS, Distributed Cache.
- Practical cloud native experience.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Keen interest in staying ahead of modern development trends and experimenting with emerging technologies such as AI and Machine Learning.
- Hands-on experience with Microservices, Data usage patterns, and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).
- Hands-on experience with no SQL Data bases like Cassandra.
- Hands-on experience with Python programming.
- Experience with RESTful APIs concepts and its integration with React.js.
- Experience working in financial services.
